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He watched Cardon go out, and then poured a glass of port for himself and sipped slowly, holding the glass to the light and watching the ruby glow it cast on the desk top. It had been over thirty years ago, when he had been old Jules de Chambord's assistant, that the Plan had been first conceived.
France was not willing, for the sake of Henri V., to give up her tricolor, the flag of so many memories. Its loss had been the bitterest humiliation that the nation had had to suffer at the Restoration. The Comte de Chambord's own friends were cruelly disappointed; the moderate Republicans, who had been ready to accept him as a constitutional monarch, said at once that he was far too Bourbon.
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